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PROCLAIMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Declared publicly; made widely known
Example:
the newspaper's proclaimed adherence to the government's policy
Synonyms:
announced; proclaimed
Classified under:
Similar:
declared (made known or openly avowed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb proclaim
Context examples:
Hour after hour passed away, and the wearied Catherine had heard three proclaimed by all the clocks in the house before the tempest subsided or she unknowingly fell fast asleep.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
From the pocket of his light summer overcoat protruded the bundle of indorsed papers which proclaimed his profession.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny-sack about his slim hips proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ship’s galley in which I found myself.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The worst fault that the critics could find with him was that there was a want of power in his blows—a remark which certainly could not have been made about his neighbour, whose long face, curved nose, and dark, flashing eyes proclaimed him as a member of the same ancient race.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When therefore the son had been proclaimed king, and the time of mourning was over, he was forced to keep the promise which he had given his father, and caused the king’s daughter to be asked in marriage, and she was promised to him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Though aware, before she began it, that it must bring a confession of his inconstancy, and confirm their separation for ever, she was not aware that such language could be suffered to announce it; nor could she have supposed Willoughby capable of departing so far from the appearance of every honourable and delicate feeling—so far from the common decorum of a gentleman, as to send a letter so impudently cruel: a letter which, instead of bringing with his desire of a release any professions of regret, acknowledged no breach of faith, denied all peculiar affection whatever—a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villainy.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Johnson, their nearest neighbor and the one who supplied them with milk, proclaimed him a Klondike dog.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A few minutes later we were joined by a short, stout man whose olive face and coal-black hair proclaimed his Southern origin, though his speech was that of an educated Englishman.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"You can bet he was," Martin proclaimed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Happy the voice that proclaimed the discovery!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
